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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 157, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 2013, 3:43 PM EDT for 4 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 2, 2013, 3:43 PM EDT (19:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2013, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Cameron County, PA, Clinton County, PA, Elk County, PA, Potter County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 171 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1277 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 650 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS State College, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 2, 3:20 PM EDT, 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 2, 3:20 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 2, 3:26 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 326 PM EDT MON SEP 2 2013 PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-037-041-042-045-046-049>053-031930- WARREN-MCKEAN-POTTER-ELK-CAMERON-NORTHERN CLINTON-CLEARFIELD- NORTHERN CENTRE-SOUTHERN CENTRE-TIOGA-NORTHERN LYCOMING-SULLIVAN- SOUTHERN CLINTON-SOUTHERN LYCOMING-UNION-SNYDER-MONTOUR- NORTHUMBERLAND-COLUMBIA- 326 PM EDT MON SEP 2 2013 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 510 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV/STATECOLLEGE ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. PAZ024>028-033>036-056>059-063>066-031930- CAMBRIA-BLAIR-HUNTINGDON-MIFFLIN-JUNIATA-SOMERSET-BEDFORD-FULTON- FRANKLIN-PERRY-DAUPHIN-SCHUYLKILL-LEBANON-CUMBERLAND-ADAMS-YORK- LANCASTER- 326 PM EDT MON SEP 2 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED LATER TODAY AND THIS EVENING. SOME STORMS COULD BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 2, 2:54 PM EDT, 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
254 PM EDT MON SEP 02 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0253 PM HAIL ORMSBY 41.81N 78.54W
09/02/2013 E1.00 INCH MCKEAN PA TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
EVENT NUMBER CTP1300374
COLBERTThe office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 9:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Columbia | 33 min |
| Sep 1, 10:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Dauphin | 23 min |
| Sep 1, 10:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Dauphin | 46 min |
| Sep 1, 11:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Columbia | 37 min |
| Sep 2, 12:50 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Columbia | 4 hr |
| Sep 2, 1:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | McKean, Warren | 83 min |
| Sep 2, 2:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Elk, McKean, Potter, Warren | 56 min |
| Sep 2, 3:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron, Elk, McKean, Potter, Tioga | 61 min |
| Sep 2, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clinton, Lycoming, Potter | 61 min |
| Sep 2, 4:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Elk | 67 min |
| Sep 2, 5:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cumberland | 65 min |
| Sep 2, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, York | 58 min |
| Sep 2, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cambria, Clearfield | 58 min |
| Sep 2, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lebanon | 59 min |
| Sep 2, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Blair, Cambria, Clearfield | 55 min |
| Sep 2, 7:03 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Cambria, Clearfield | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster, Lebanon | 65 min |
| Sep 2, 7:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Centre | 49 min |
| Sep 2, 7:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Cambria | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 7:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair, Cambria | 65 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.